Gin for mounting and dismounting the carriages of guns of large caliber.



E. SCHNEIDER. GIN FOR MOUNTING AND DISMOUNTING THE CARRIAGES 0F GUNS 0F LARGE CALIBER.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 14. I918- RENEWED FEB. 10. I919.

1,298,578 Patented Mar. 25, 1919.

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GIN FOR MOUNTING AND DISMOUNTING THE CARRIAGES 0F GUNS 0F LARGE CALIBER. APPLICATION FILED FEB. 14,1918. RENEWED FEB. 10,1919.

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G|N-FOR MOUNTING AND msmoummc THE CARRIAGES 0F GUNS OF LARGE CALIBER.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 14. I918. RENEWED FEB. 10,1919.

1,298,578. Patented Mar. 25, 1919.

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EUGENE SCHNEIDER, OF LE CREUZOT, FRANCE, ASSIGNOR TO SCHNEIDER & CIE., OF PARIS, FRANCE, A LIMITED JOINT-STOCK COMPANY OF FRANCE.

GIN FOR MOUNTING AND DI-SMOUN TING THE CARRIAGES 0F GUNS 0F LARGE CALIBER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 25, 1919.

Application filed February 14, 1918, Serial No. 217,183. Renewed February 10, 1919. Serial No. 276,247.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, EUGENE SCHNEIDER, a citizen of the French Republic, and a resident of Le Creuzot, Sane-et-Loire, France, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Gins for Mounting and Dismounting the Carriages of Guns of Large Caliber, which invention is fully set forth in the following specification.

For the purpose of mounting and dismounting the parts of carriages or the platforms of carriages of guns of large caliber, use is frequently made of a kind of gin consisting of two iron frames stayed together, the uprights of which serve as guides for beams for supporting the parts to be handled, said beams being in turn carried by lifting jacks.

Hitherto the structure composed of the said stayed frames has been able to serve solely for the above stated operations.

The present invention has now for its object to provide an improved form of gin composed in the usual manner of dismountable parts which, according to this invention, is capable of being rapidly converted into a structure to be erected at a suitable distance from the gun, at the entrance of a track for transport car trafiic. The gin thus converted will now constitute the support and the track for a traveling crane for handling munitions, piled with interposed hurdles at a spot straddled by said structure.

In practice, each of the frames of the gin comprises for this purpose, in the angles formed between the upper cross member and the uprights, an assemblage which is concerned only with the cross member or with both the cross member and the uprights, and which is constructed in such a manner as to be capable of receiving directly either a support for a rolling track for the traveling crane that serves to handle the munitions, or directly the said rolling track, which may be constituted by the beams employed for raising the loads to be handled.

Two embodiments of this invention are illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which:

Figure 1 is a front elevation of the gin arranged for handling the platform of a gun carriage.

Fig. 2 is a horizontal section on the line IIII of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a side elevation partly in section on the line III-III of Fig. 1.

Figs. tand 5 are partial front elevations showing in various positions the operating 1acks and the beams for supporting the load eing handled.

Figs. 6, 7 and 8 are respectively a front elevation, a side elevation partly in section on the line VII-VII of Fig. 6, and a plan, of the general arrangement of the frames of the gin, converted to form a track structure for a traveling crane moving over a pile of munitions.

Fig. 9 is a detail view in elevation of the support for the rolling track for the traveling crane. 70

Figs. 10 and 11 are respectively a vertical section on the line XX of Fig. 9 and a horizontal section on the line XI-XI of Fig. 9.

Figs. 12 and 13 are two elevations taken at right angles to each other of a modified form of the support for the track for the traveling crane.

As shown, the improved gin for handling the parts of a gun carriage comprises in the usual manner two similar frames consisting each of two uprights A resting at their lower ends upon soleplates B and connected at their upper ends by a cross member 0 The uprights A are stayed together by means of stays or ties D pivoted at their lower ends to a block E fixed on the soleplate B. The uprights A, instead of being fixed directly to the soleplates B, are preferably connected to a plate F which is adapted to be rapidly connected to the soleplate B by means of eyes 7 engaging between blocks 6 on the soleplate, and fixed in position bymeans of turn-pins G. The uprights as shown in the Figs. 9, 10 and 11. or that shown by wayof drawing consist of two U-bars suitably spaced apart s0 as to form a guide for beams H that serve for the hooking on of the supports for the parts to be handled.

The raising and lowering of the beams H are effected by means of jacks I upon which bear through the medium of hook bars J,

the ends of the beam H thatproject beyond. the uprights A. These bars are pierced with holes 7' j 3' into which there may be alternatively engaged a supporting pin K provided with a handle K When it is desired to raise a part L of a carriage platform or other part to be handled, in order to place it into position, then starting from the position shown in Fig. 1,

the jacks I are operated to the end of their stroke as indicated in elevation in Fig. 4. The beam H being then in the "position shown in that figure, it is hookedrtemporarily on to the uprights A which -are pierced at suitable heights with holes a a a This hooking may be effected by means of bent pins similar to the pins K, K

The beam having been thus hooked (Fig.

4-), the pins K, K may be withdrawn, and

the whole comprising the'jack bodies and the bars J maybe allowed to descend freely into their initial position. The pins K, K

may then be engaged, in the holes jflthe beams 7t resting on them. Then the jacks modification in Figs. 12 and 13. This assemblage is designed to be able to receive directly either a support fora rolling track,

oru'the rolling track itself. y 1 In the example shown in Figs. 1 to II, this assemblage consists of two angles N -ea'ch fixed by means of one flange to the web of the'cross member C. The other flanges form a block for the engagement of an'eye -0 provided'on the upper part of the bracket 0 upon which is laid the rolling track P for the traveling crane Q.

In the "modification shown in Figs. 12 and 13, the assemblage'for the support of the track P consists of a bracket formed of a plat RR R" bent in the shape ofa U. The base R of this U-shaped plate is adapt- Y ed to hook on to" the upper flange of the cross member 0, while the two flanges R form gussets that are fixed to the elements of the upright The rails P of the rolling track for the traveling crane Q might be constituted by the beams H. a

As shown clearly in Figs. 6, 7 and 8, the improved gin after having served for mounting the gun carriage, may be transported to a suitable distance to the end of a railroad S (Figs. 7 and 8) above a pile of ammunition comprising interposed hurdles- T. By

suitably operating the-traveling crane Q. and the crab. U carried by it, a projectile can be taken and brought from the position V which it occupies in the pile (Fig. 7) to a conveyer truck W. e r

The frames A-OA are .preferablywindstayed by cables X provided at one end with hooks X which are engaged 'with the eyebolts A fixed to the uprights A. The lower end of each cable may bev anchored to the ground by means of stakesY; (Fig. '7). What I claim is 1. In a gin for handling the parts of a carriage of a gun oflarge caliber,"thecomb1nat1on of beams for supporting the parts to be handled, two iron frames stayed together serving as guides for said beams,

jacks for raising and lowering, two assemblages located one 1n each of the upper angles between the upper cross member and the uprights 'of' each frame, said assemblages being attachedsolely to their cross,

members or alternatively to both the said cross member and the respective uprights of their frames, a rolling track adapted to be attached directly to said assemblages, "and a traveling crane adapted to travel along said 11 rolllng track, whereby sald gin after-use as an ordinary gin for handling the parts of a-gun carriage, canbe converted quickly into a structure for supporting a traveling crane, erected over a pile of ammunition 1 located close to the head of a railroad,- for transferring ammunltlon from said plle on "to a truck. running over said railroad.

2. In a gin for handling the parts of a carriage of a gunof large caliber, the combi-1 nation of. beams for supporting the parts to be handled, two iron frames stayed'together serving as guides for said beams,

jacks for raising and lowering, two assemblages-locatedone in each of the upper angles between the upper crossmember and the uprights'of each frame, said assemblages being attached solely to'their cross members or alternatively to both the said cross member and the respective uprights of their frames, supports adapted to be attached directly to said assemblages, a roll ing track adapted to be attached directly to said supports, and a'tra-veling' crane adapted to travel along said rolling track.

3. In a gin for handling-the parts of a carriage of a gun of large caliber, the combitively to both the said cross member and the nation of beams for supporting the parts to respective uprights of their frames, and a be handled, constituting a rolling track, two traveling crane adapted to travel over the iron frames stayed together serving as rolling track formed by said beams. 5 guides for said beams, jacks for raising and In testimony whereof I have signed this 15 lowering, two assemblages located one in specification.

each of the upper angles between the upper EUGENE SCHNEIDER. cross member and the uprights of each Witnesses: frame, said assemblages being attached Arman MOSTICKER,

10 solely to their cross members or alterna- CHAS. P. PREssLY.

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